• remove multicolor temporarily as it is no longer on CRAN (#86)
  • use new special “sentinel” “PACKAGE” prefixed with an underscore for the package level manual file (84)
  • new animals alligator, goldfish, stegosaurus, whale, and wolf from @harriscw (#79)
  • makes sure to use a suggested package multicolor conditionally throughout the package (tests, examples, vignettes)

NEW FEATURES

  • say() parameter what loses the fillerama options (“arresteddevelopment”, “doctorwho”, “dexter”, “futurama”, “holygrail”, “simpsons”, “starwars”, “loremipsum”) because the API is down
  • gains two squirrels squirrel and squirrel2 (#74) from @marionlouveaux
  • gains chuck norris chuck (#62) from @bgreenwell
  • the type parameter in say() gains new option print, the default option in non-interactive environments. type="print" will cat() output (#70) (#72)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • standardize spacing above first line in animals (#68) (#69)
  • add examples to readme of using colors (#73)

BUG FIXES

  • fix to use of colors: if colors can not be used in certain computing environments, tell users that and set colors to NULL (#65) (#66)

NEW FEATURES

  • cowsay now supports colors via the multicolor package from Amanda Dobbyn. supports coloring by the thing being said (new what_color parameter) or the thing saying it (new by_color parameter). supports more than one color. thanks Amanda! (#59) (#61)

BUG FIXES

  • Fix catfact API usage (#56) (#57)

NEW FEATURES

  • @ateucher added support for the rmsfact package, for random facts about Richard Stallman (#45)
  • turkey animal added by @jeremycg , thanks Jeremy! (#46)
  • @LucyMcGowan added a monkey, thanks Lucy! (#47)
  • @GuangchuangYu added the BSD daemon, also called “beastie”, thank so much! (#48) (#49)
  • @onertipaday added support for quotes from the http://fillerama.io/ service with quotes from Futurama, Star Wars, Dexter, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and more. Thanks Paolo! (#51)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • removed broken link from readme and pkg (#43) thanks @apjanke

BUG FIXES

  • @ateucher fixed problem on windows (#40)
  • @florianm fixed a spelling error (#41) (#42)
  • First release to CRAN